Professor Richard Hobbs

Keynote speaker for "Restoration Ecology" on Day Three of the Scientific Program.

Richard Hobbs is currently Professor of Environmental Science at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, where he holds an Australian Professorial Fellowship.

His particular interests are in vegetation dynamics and management, fragmentation, invasive species, ecosystem restoration, conservation biology and landscape ecology.

He is the author of over 250 refereed publications, many magazine articles and unrefereed publications, and author/editor of 14 books.

He serves or has served in executive positions in a number of learned societies and on numerous editorial boards and is currently Editor in Chief of the journal Restoration Ecology.

He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2004.

For more information on Professor Hobbs, please visit the Murdoch University sebsite at http://wwwscieng.murdoch.edu.au/centres/ecorestor/people.html#rh